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Keynote Lecture "Memorializing Peace, Wasting Security: Race and Colonialism in Nuclear Storytelling"

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09. October 2024 17:30 – 09. October 2024 19:00
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Philipps University Marburg, University Library, Deutschhausstr. 9, lecture hall B008

Invitation to Keynote lecture

In the context of the conference "Historicities of Security and Peace," the Collaborative Research Center "Dynamics of Security," the Center for Conflict Studies, and the Research Hub for Security and Conflict Transformation at the European University for Peace, Justice, and Inclusive Societies (EUPeace) cordially invite you to a public evening lecture by Prof. Shampa Biswas (Whitman College), followed by a reception.

Abstract 

This talk will make a case for ‘contaminating’ the study of international relations by centering ‘waste’ as a central category of analysis. Thinking of waste as “matter out of place,” the talk will suggest that drawing attention to the excess uncontainable other of the categories through which we make sense of international relations makes visible a racialized colonial order, and who and what that order considers disposal. To make that argument, the talk will use the global story of ‘Fat Man’ – the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki – to ask what we can learn about peace, security, and the nuclear order from attending to practices of memorialization at the different nodes of the bomb’s production and use.

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Collaborative Research Center "Dynamics of Security"
Center for Conflict Studies
EUPeace

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